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ā€œMindfulness at Risk of Being ‘Turned into a Free Market Commodity’ā€

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The Guardian reports growing concerns from the Buddhist Society conference: ā€œJon Kabat-Zinn, who created the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts medical school, warned last week that some people feared a ā€˜sort of superficial ā€˜McMindfulness’ is taking over, which ignores the ethical foundations of the meditative practices and traditions from which mindfulness has emerged, and divorces it from its profoundly transformative potential.ā€™ā€